The flow of this rotation will depend on preceptor. You will work with one, maybe more, internist(s) who all have a specialty interest (eg. cardiology, ID, rheumatology...). This rotation is mainly office-based, with some hospital shifts, and some clinical days at the hospital in the GIM Clinic or Rapid Access Internal Clinic. There is typically lots of time to study on this rotation.
Variable. Call/text the week before. Their contact information is available on Entrada. Try to call their office before the Friday afternoon, as often their offices won’t be open.
This will depend a lot on your preceptor and the type of patients you see. Some of the activities you may be involved in include performing new consults, seeing follow-up patients and observing your preceptor conduct appointments. For follow-up appointments with patients, review their charts before seeing them if possible. Some preceptors will hand-pick new consults for you to see, so you can review their chart before you see them.
No call.
Use the Internal Medicine templates for your consults.
You may be able to pre-read your cases for the day at some offices. This can be helpful sometimes with learning, especially if the preceptor is hand-picking cases ahead of time. By no means is this necessary, do so if interested.
Find out the focus of your internist and study that topic a bit before going in on your first day- Various specialty focuses include cardiology, infectious disease, neurology, endocrinology, and rheumatology.